[lbo-talk] Another thing about Vivaldi....

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Aug 30 18:53:25 PDT 2011


On Aug 30, 2011, at 4:40 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:


> A lot of the "tweedle" is in how he is played. This is generally true with baroque music and Haydn's symphonic music, which is played very, very badly. I used to think all of Haydn's symphonies were total hack work. Then I heard one live, played by an orchestra who cared, on original instruments in a church in Berkeley, and I cried for a good twenty minutes. There were layers and layers and layers of stuff in there I had no idea existed in Haydn's music.

Have you listened much to Haydn's quartets and piano sonatas? Splendid stuff. I could listen to it over and over, and have.

Doug



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list